Tit for Tat: NJDRC Responds to PennEast’s Devastating Refutation
The New Jersey Division of the Rate Counsel (NJDRC) is a state government agency responsible for representing the interests of residents, businesses and other rate payers in dealing with regulated public utilities and insurance firms. In September the NJDRC filed a so-called analysis with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) slamming the need and cost recovery plan for the PennEast Pipeline–a $1 billion, 118-mile, primarily 36-inch pipeline that will get built from Dallas (Luzerne County), PA to Transco’s pipeline interconnection near Pennington (Mercer County), NJ. PennEast responded to the NJDRC’s analysis with an independent report written by Concentric Energy Advisors, rippping to shreds the arguments put forward by NJDRC (see PennEast Responds to NJDRC with Study Proving Pipeline is Needed). The humiliated NJDRC has responded, yet again, by filing a response to PennEast’s obliteration of their arguments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…
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